Saturday Night at the Moviesis a long-standing tradition at TVOntario. A triple bill of feature-length films is presented every Saturday evening at 8pm EST. The movies are interpersed with clips from TVO's archives of over 1200 interviews with Hollywood actors, directors, producers and other personalities. TVO runs SNAM in conjunction with courses given at York University's film studiesdepartment and other post-secondary institutions.

“The Anderson Tapes”(1971) starring Sean Connery is a bit of a retro trip with a great twist in conclusion that almost makes it worth staying up for the ending. Sean Connery’s character, Duke Anderson, is all about proving that he is still at the top of his larceny game after he gets out of the slammer. He engineers a complicated heist involving several luxury apartments made more complicated by multi-layered surveillance systems.

I don’t know how things will turn out in the remake of the movie scheduled for release later in 2010. They will surely have updated surveillance equipment to replace the old reel to reel tapes that were “state of the art” in 1971. Connery, while playing Duke Anderson, doesn’t get to play with all of the super spy toys that were a part of the James Bond franchise of the same era. These days you can go down to the local electronics super store and buy yourself some of the gadgets that only Bond and the boys could have way back when. I don’t know that I’ll be paying money to go and see the remake of “The Anderson Tapes” in the theatre, but at least I can say that I’ve seen the original and, yes, I do know what happens at the end of that version!